There had to be some connection between Liu Jingqing and this ghost. For now, this was the only way he could keep the hair around the pool from hurting him and dragging him to the bottom.
The icy water rose over Qin Manjiang's mouth and nose, submerging the top of his head and his neck...
Qin Manjiang held his breath, gripping Liu Jingqing, who floated on the surface with her eyes tightly shut, with one hand while using his phone to light up the water with the other.
The water was clear, without even a single bubble. After lowering his phone into it, Qin Manjiang ducked underwater to look around.
Most people's arm span was equal to their height. With Qin Manjiang holding one of Liu Jingqing's hands as he submerged, even adding the reach of his other arm, the deepest he could go was probably only about Liu Jingqing's height-roughly 1.7 meters.
Normally, this pool was not even half a meter deep...
Yet when he submerged and saw what was underwater, even Qin Manjiang felt his scalp prickle.
He finally saw it: a corpse bloated enormously by the water, deathly pale all over, its body flecked with blood. Its hair writhed as though it had come alive, reaching toward the surface.
He could vaguely make out Liu Jingqing's features on the corpse.
Although Qin Manjiang had already braced himself, his heart still sank when he actually saw Liu Jingqing's corpse.
He finally understood why the second round said "identify the Vengeful Ghost," rather than "find the Vengeful Ghost."
Because the ghost was not hidden at all. There was no question of finding it or failing to find it.
The word "find" suggested that the other party was completely hidden, and only counted as "found" after a search uncovered it.